The sitting on Thursday was marked by a deplorable incident.
M. Baudry d'Asson, an ardent Legitimist, had on Tuesday called the Government a " Government of pick - locks " (" des crocheteurs "), and was excluded, in punishment, from the sittings. He appeared in his place, nevertheless, and was ordered by the President to retire. He refused, upon which M. Gambetta, to give him time to reflect, suspended the sitting. On the resumption of busi- ness, M. Baudry d'Asson still remaining, the President ordered the guard to remove him ; but M. d'Asson's friends resisted, the soldiers, who were unarmed, were hustled and their epaulets torn, and it was only by direct fighting that the guard were enabled to carry off the prisoner. A renewal of the scene is threatened, but as M. Baudry d'Asson, who was sentenced to three days' imprisonment, was released on Thursday night, it is probable he has given some promise to obey the rules. The incident looks very serious, because soldiers were employed; but it. has occurred in our own House of Commons, in Feargus O'Connor's case, and M. Bandry d'Asson, as a Legitimist, has no popular strength behind him. It is evident, however, from this scene and the language used in the Senate, that the feel- ings of the minority have been dangerously roused by the execu- tion of the March Decrees.. They are ready for civil war, if only the Republic may be overthrown. It should not be for- gotten that they sit in Paris and not in Versailles, and that their violence may rouse violence on the other side.
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